And, so it was that Apple elected a new Pope, uh, CEO. Oh, right, CEO.

What I love most about this video is how you still had to turn the adapter around once before it would fit.

SUSE and Nvidia reveal a turnkey AI factory for sovereign enterprise workloads SUSE and Nvidia launch SUSE AI Factory at SUSECON 2026, offering a turnkey, sovereign open-source platform for secure enterprise AI scaling and deployment.

SUSE and Nvidia reveal a turnkey AI factory for sovereign enterprise workloads: thenewstack.io/suse-nvidia-... via @thenewstack.io & @sjvn.bsky.social

Want to run your own digitally sovereign #AI on #Nvidia hardware? #SUSE has the software stack you need.

Just published on FOSS Force: When Your Xorg Fork Is More About DEI Than Display Servers buff.ly/M3xwq6V

Classic.

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source Cal is moving its flagship open-source program to a proprietary model because it can't cope with the dangers of AI hacking its open code.

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source zdnet.com/article/ai-s... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social

Cal left #opensource because #AI has made it, it claims, impossible for the company to reliably secure its code.

You can use Linux 7.0 on these 7 distros today - here's what to expect The latest Linux kernel boasts full Rust support and a greatly improved scheduler to speed up your work and your games.

You can try Linux 7.0 now on these distros - here's what's new zdnet.com/article/try-... via @zdnet.bsky.social &
@sjvn.bsky.social

Want to kick the tires of the #Linux 7.0 kernel? These distros are ready to run.

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future Opinion: Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future theregister.com/2026/04/13/d... via @theregister.com & @sjvn.bsky.social

Many American companies are feeling the heat, so they're setting up plans to assure the EU that they're still trustworthy. Europeans aren't buying it.

Double the batteries, double the... wait a cotton-picking minute!

AI Being Used More To Scrutinize, Reduce Byzantine Medical Bills If a $100 itemized bill for aspirin is hard to swallow, imagine a bill that rivals the price of a modest suburban starter home.

Finally, a use for AI I can get completely behind.

techstrong.ai/articles/ai-...

I could see that.

Artemis Was a State Failure and a Human Triumph For all its well-earned acclaim, NASA’s most recent moon mission also epitomized the worst excesses and flaws of the US space program and took risks out of proportion to its rewards.

I love the idea of space travel. I'd still like to go myself. But this, although it was a brilliant success, is not the way to do it.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

The Hardy Men | Daniel Lefferts In 2022 Jonathan Keeperman, then a lecturer in the English department at the University of California, Irvine, who for years had moonlighted as a

A right-wing press is reprinting the original 1920s Hardy Boys books because the 1950s versions were seemingly too progressive.
(requires a subscription, but you can read one story for free with registration -- in this case I think it's worth it)

A photo of a print NYT headline saying the strait is open next to an IPhone NYT headline saying it’s closed

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

Just published on FOSS Force: AI Pushes Cal.com to Shutter Open and Go Nonfree fossforce.com/2026/04/ai-p...

How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?

At best--AT BEST--Google AI overviews are wrong one time in ten.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

Afterward, as I awoke from my coma, I recalled I'd been so sure it would work.

Just published on FOSS Force: Encrypt Files on Linux with Hideout and Skip the Terminal fossforce.com/2026/04/encr...

Sovereign Cloud Stats Every CIO Needs Before Their Next Board Meeting

Increasingly, countries are laying claim to companies’ customer data. In response, companies are turning to sovereign clouds.
www.windriver.com/blog/Soverei...

Designing Large-Scale Software for Reuse With an Automotive Company An Agile development success story: An automotive OEM upgraded its infotainment system to support multiple Android versions.

Designing Large-Scale Software for Reuse With an Automotive Company

An #Agile Dev Success Story: A European automotive OEM had to upgrade its infotainment system to support multiple Android versions — and make the software extensible across product lines.
www.aptiv.com/en/insights/...

Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished No one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software.…

Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source Cal is moving its flagship open-source program to a proprietary model because it can't cope with the dangers of AI hacking its open code.

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source zdnet.com/article/ai-s... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social

Cal left #opensource because #AI has made it, it claims, impossible for the company to reliably secure its code.

I'm running Ubuntu 26.04 RC with Linux 7 myself. No fuss, no muss.

You can try Linux 7.0 now on these distros - here's what's new The latest Linux kernel boasts full Rust support and a greatly improved scheduler to speed up your work and your games.

You can try Linux 7.0 now on these distros - here's what's new zdnet.com/article/try-... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social

Want to kick the tires of the #Linux 7.0 kernel? These distros are ready to run.

The new rules for AI-assisted code in the Linux kernel: What every dev needs to know Linus Torvalds and maintainers just finalized the Linux kernel's new AI policy - but it might not address the biggest challenge with AI-generated code. Here's why.

The new rules for AI-assisted code in the Linux kernel: What every dev needs to know zdnet.com/article/linu... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social

Going forward, you can use #AI for #Linux kernel development if you obey these rules.

Here, kitty, kitty, kitty. Here kitty.

I'll be writing about that later today for ZDNET. Stay tuned!

Linux 7.0 debuts with some big changes for networking Why Linux 7's quiet TCP change could be the best thing to happen to your network.

Why Linux 7's quiet TCP change could be the best thing to happen to your network.
www.networkworld.com/article/4158...

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future Opinion: Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/d... via @theregister.com & @sjvn.bsky.social

Many American companies are feeling the heat, so they're setting up plans to assure the EU that they're still trustworthy. Europeans aren't buying it.

France is replacing 2.5 million Windows desktops with Linux - and I mapped out its new stack Officially, we don't know what France's forthcoming Linux desktop will look like, but this is what my sources and experience tell me to expect.

France is replacing 2.5 million Windows desktops with Linux - and I mapped out its new stack zdnet.com/article/fran... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social

Here's what France's new #Linux desktop will look like.